The 2nd such case in 4 months:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_...s/patient_death
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A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding.
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An investigator's report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one point choked on medication and had been left sitting in a chair for close to a day at the facility about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away.
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That's beyond cold hearted. I hope they go to prison for a long time.
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It was not clear from the report exactly how Sabock died.
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FROM NEGLECT?
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Federal officials have threatened to cut off funding because of Sabock's death and a report that a physician punched a patient after the teen bit the doctor.
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No, doctor, you
don't physically retaliate.
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"It's not the kind of thing that we in our wildest dreams would expect to happen in our hospitals — in our wildest nightmares, I guess," Lawrence said.
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And it's only going to get worse unless regulators step up controls.
My sis-in-law frequently comments that coworkers at the hospital where she works part-time in the psychiatric ward do not care about the patients.
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A patient in New York died in June after she waited in a hospital's mental ward waiting area for nearly 24 hours. Security video showed her writhing on the floor. It was nearly an hour before someone else flagged down a staff member who got help for the unresponsive woman.
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Yep, I remember that. SHAMEFUL!